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It is not OSI® Open Source Definition™ approved, but it is open source for the common use of the term.
by guelo 7mo ago
It is not OSI® Open Source Definition™ approved, but it is open source for the common use of the term.
- TimeBearingDown 7mo agoThe accepted term is "source available". Restrictions on usage type are not commonly accepted as open source by any community that I'm aware of.
- guelo 7mo agoThat is according to OSI. OSI does not get to dictate the english language.
- bilekas 7mo agoI don't say it to be pedantic about the term, but there are hard restrictions on usage of this tool in commercial environments.. So it's important people are aware and don't just assume it's an open source.
- guelo 7mo agoRight. OSI tried to use their authority to make it seem like AWS's strip mining of the open source ecosystem was the moral high ground. HN has a lot of wishful commercial operators who side with AWS. So they use "open source" lower case as a weapon to harass the open source developers. Personally I tend to side with the developers who try to figure out a way to keep their projects viable.